Turnpike Commission Ends With HB 1197

Turnpike Commission Ends With HB 1197Turnpike Commission Ends With HB 1197 — Legislation has been introduced last week to abolish the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, following grand jury findings highlighting waste, fraud and abuse within the agency, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

House Bill 1197 would transfer all operations, maintenance, construction and other responsibilities for the turnpike to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) in an effort to streamline government and enhance efficiency.

If enacted, House Bill 1197 would require PennDOT to honor any collective bargaining agreement in existence between the Turnpike Commission and any employee organization. The bill also would assign debt of the outstanding bonds of the Turnpike Commission to the Commonwealth and would allocate turnpike tolls for repayment of the debt.

The Turnpike Commission is currently run by nine executives and is in charge of 545 miles of roadway. By comparison, PennDOT is run by seven executives and manages more than 41,000 miles of roadway.

The bill now awaits consideration in the House Transportation Committee.

 

Turnpike Commission Ends With HB 1197

 

Quakers, Bootleggers, State Stores

Quakers, Bootleggers, State Stores — Kevin Williamson’s explains how anti-free market Republican cronyists are trying to stop the ending of Pennsylvania’s government liquor monopoly.

Hey, did you know that the guy who got the contract for those laughable wine kiosks in grocery stores was Ed Rendell’s finance chairman?

Or that state store clerks are members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 which is led by Wendell W. Young IV,  who gets  a $260,000 salary?  Do you really think he works a 40 hour week?  The union’s previous president was Wendell W. Young III. You’d almost think they were North Koreans or something.

Hat tip Bob Guzzardi

Quakers, Bootleggers, State Stores

Quakers, Bootleggers, State Stores

Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Bill Before Senate

Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Bill Before Senate — The House voted this week in support of legislation to eliminate the inheritance tax on property transferred upon the death of a natural, adoptive or step-parent to or for the use of a child 21 years of age or younger.

House Bill 659 would eliminate the current 4.5 percent tax placed on a property transfer of that type. The bill unanimously passed the House last session and is one step in dealing with the levy commonly referred to as the “death tax.” Current law does not tax the transfer of property upon the death of a child 21 years of age or younger to or for the use of a natural, adoptive or step-parent, and this bill seeks to ensure children also would not be taxed in the event of a property transfer.

House Bill 659 goes to the Senate for consideration.

 

Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Bill Before Senate

Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Bill Before Senate

Mocking God — Off The Internet

Mocking God — Off The Internet — A man of 32 years, was smoking, while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said:’God, that’s for you.’
He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner.
The man who built the Titanic
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be.
With an ironic tone he said: ‘Not even God can sink it’
The result: I think you all know what happened to the Titanic
Marilyn Monroe (Actress)
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show.
He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her.
After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said:
‘I don’t need your Jesus’.
A week later, she was found dead in her apartment
Bon Scott (Singer)
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang:
‘Don’t stop me; I’m going down all the way, down the highway to hell’.
On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.
Campinas (IN 2005)
In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend…..
The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter holding her hand, who was already seated in the car:
‘My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.’
She responded: ‘Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here…..It’s Already Full ‘
Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact.
The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist & entertainer) said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.
In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle.
Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus.
Many have died, but only Jesus died and rise again, and he is still alive….
‘Jesus’
I have done my part by sharing this with you, Jesus said ‘If you are embarrassed about me,
I will also be embarrassed about you before my father.’
You are my 8 in 8 seconds. I am not breaking this.. No way!
I’M TOLD THIS WORKS!!!!! Bishop T..D. Jakes ‘8 Second Prayer.’ Just repeat this prayer and see how God moves!!

‘Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus’ name. Amen.’
Pass this message round
by simply liking the secret show page. and type “Amen”
You will receive a miracle tomorrow. I Hope that you don’t ignore.

 

Mocking God — Off The Internet

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government
Sam Houston

Gun Control And Mayors

Marcus Hook Mayor James “Jay” Schiliro who is facing charges for allegedly firing a gun inside his home in an attempt to
intimidate a 20-year-old  man to have sex with him is a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the
organization run by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to advance
stricter gun regulations around the United States, reports Breitbart.com

Wonder how he feels about sodomy laws.

Schiliro  is charged with official oppression, recklessly endangering another person, unlawful
restraint, false imprisonment and providing alcohol to a minor, all
misdemeanor offenses.

He is a Republican, by the way. It doesn’t matter. A disproportionate number of politicians are sociopaths. Don’t trust anybody who really wants to be the boss.

Pennsylvania Charities Seek Relief From State

Pennsylvania Charities Seek Relief From State — Charities and churches who depend on raffles and such were slammed in the back last year by those in Harrisburg who passed  Act 2 that placed regulatory burdens and strict reporting rules on running these events.

VFW Post 3460 of Media is among the many organizations asking that legislators be contacted and asked to support SB 144, SB 390 and HB 290.

And to think “small government” Republicans run things there.

 

Pennsylvania Charities Seek Relief From State